logician

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Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge Numbers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

As Bessent should understand, the violation of one logical condition can obviate the logic of another—what a logician might call an “antecedent condition.”

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Throughout the washes of guffaws, chuckles and hysterics that accompanied Eddie Izzard’s set on Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl, the British comedian, actor, logician and mimic performed gymnastic non-sequitur sequences and nuanced physical comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

She is currently working on a biography of the mathematical logician Verena Huber-Dyson, forthcoming from Pantheon.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

“Oh, sure. He’s a great mathematician. And a logician, too.”

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok